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TNW Profile: Credictive founder Ela Madej on being ‘a woman in tech’, Rainbows and Unicorns

The Next Web

Under the relatively fresh ‘TNW Profile’ banner, we regularly shine a light on great European entrepreneurs and startup founders, to learn more about their journey and their business, and what drives them personally. Emails from a client or tweets from strangers saying you’re doing something right are invaluable.

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Six Words Of Advice From Our Small Biz Community

crowdSPRING Blog

Each week, we ask small business founders and owners to distill their advice to new entrepreneurs into six words, as part of our Small Business Spotlight series. Founder, Allen Burt, of EpicThrills. Founder, Jamie Beckland, of BookTurtle. Co-founder, Scott Mercer, of Volta Industries. Tell everyone.

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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

Stock Options Stock Options are weighted heavily to compensate the people who take the most risk, namely, the people who join Fog Creek when its just a wee tiny company and were all jammed into one tiny office and we cant afford to buy your kids braces and sometimes you have to change the Poland Spring yourself. About the author.

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An interview with Hollrr CEO David Hegarty

Jeff Hilimire

I find founders of companies like this extremely inspiring and he certainly didn’t let me down with his answers in this interview. For example you could have a Hollrr This button in a confirmation email after a purchase. I posted a blog recently about Hollrr but the easiest way to describe it is FourSquare for products.

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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

At that time, the sector wasn’t well established in Central Europe and there was an understandable fear whether Poland and Polish companies are ready for new marketing solutions. We co-founded the Jamberly Group, which markets the ciao! Was it risky? Yes, it was. But you know – no pain, no gain. 40) No opportunities in the south.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

November 23, 2010 Entrepreneurs, Using Outsourcing to Obtain Capital Efficiency Needs to be Thought Through to be Effective - Robert Ochtel , June 7, 2010 Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding - teenentrepreneurblog.com , October 28, 2010 Build Your Own Silicon Valley?